Chute



Patented July 26, 1938 2,124,964

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GHUTE Albert N. Klyver, Syracuse, N. Y., assignor to The Lamson Company, Syracuse, N. Y., a corporation of Massachusetts Application June 20, 1936, Serial No. 86,325 1 Claim. (01. 193-32) This invention relates to an improvement in a similar material. The lower end of the curtain chute and more particularly to a chute for shoe normally rests upon the bottom wall of the chute lasts. as shown in Fig. 4 and if found necessary may be In the manufacture of shoes according to the weighted at the lower edge. The support 2| for 5 progressive system the lasts may be removed from the. curtain may, as shown in Fig. 2, permit ad- 5 the shoes after they have progressed several floors justment of the upper edge of the curtain toward above the station at which the parts were assemor from the open front wall of the chute. The bled with the lasts. support 2| may comprise a cross bar 22 terminat- The object of the present invention is to proing at the ends in flanges 23 removably secured vide means for returning the lasts to the station to the side walls l8 by bolts or screws. Straps 24 10 at which they were assembled with the shoe parts may be provided to reinforce the side walls and a quickly and with a minimum amount of handling plurality of openings formed in the flanges and and at the same time avoid so far as possible the walls so that the location of the cross bar 22 danger of marring or scarring the lasts by rough relative to the open front wall can be regulated.

treatment. In addition to the curtain a secondary or 15 One embodiment of such means is set forth in auxiliary curtain may be suspended into the the following description and on the accompanychute near the discharge outlet and the outlet ing drawing in which itself closed by a flexible flap 26. The curtain 25 Fig. 1 is a View in side elevation of a chute for or the flap 26 or both may be omitted when 20 shoe lasts embodying this invention; desired. 20

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper end of such The lasts, one of which is shown and designated chute with .parts broken away; and by the number 30 in Fig. 2, tossed into the chute Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged cross sectional views travel by gravity therethrough resting upon the taken along the lines 3-3 and 4-4 on Fig. l. inclined bottom wall H. The curtain 20 serves 25 The illustrated embodiment comprises a chute to hold the lasts against the wall I! and at the 25 ID having a slightly inclined base and terminatsame time to retard their speed. The auxiliary ing in a forwardly extending discharge outlet ll curtain 25 and flap 26 further retard the speed of It will be understood that the chute is so located travel of the lasts. In order to insure the delivery that the mouth [2 thereof is conveniently adof the lasts at the rate most desirable and to 30 jacent the operator or operators who remove the adapt the chute for handling lasts of different 30 lasts and that the discharge outlet delivers the sizes and weights the point of suspension of the lasts at a point conveniently adjacent the opercurtain 20 may be adjusted toward and from the ator or operators who assemble the lasts with the open front wall of the chute. shoe parts. The mouth I2 of the chute may be I claim:-

fed by a hopper l3 and the shoes delivered to a An inclined chute for shoe lasts having bottom 35 I container M as suggested in the drawing. and side walls of yieldable material and an open The chute Ill here shown consists of a frame front wall, a curtain of flexible material and including slightly inclined angle posts l5 posimeans for suspending the curtain at its upper end tioned by the bars I6, and bottom and side walls adjacent the open front wall, the lower end of said I1 and i8, respectively, of belting, fabric or simcurtain normally resting upon the bottom wall of 40 ilar material. This wall material prevents marthe chute, said means being adjustable to deterring or scarring the lasts and is suitably secured mine the distance of the upper end of the curtain to the posts l5. The front wall of the chute is from the front wall and the amount of the lower p end of the curtain resting upon the bottom wall.

Suspended from the top of the chute adjacent 45 the open front wall is a curtain 20 of belting or ALBERT N. KLYVER. 

